Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxleywas an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 July 1894
Aldous Huxley quotes about
consistency consistent people
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
string thread words
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
mad shall truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
majority logic reason
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
brave-new-world looks misery
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
solemn cease
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
peace hypocrisy long
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
good-work brave-new-world-john brave-new-world-technology
We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
sick civilisation
I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
buddhism atheism world
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
training experience significant
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
mending
Ending is better than mending.
brave-new-world evil philosopher
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.